The D&D Monster That Toppled An Empire - Phaerimm

[@JohanFaerie]

The thought of the party encountering one, and it just laughing at them so hard when it sees that the fighter or paladin has a magic sword that it no longer becomes a combat encounter is very amusing.

[@DCdabest]

I like the idea that it gets into a fight, recognises the verbal components of the spells are all old Netherese or Ancient Elven words and then just gets hit with grandpa level nostalgia for The Good Old Days and has to take a second to sit down and think about stuff.

[@Atokukau]

​@@DCdabestwould it even be alive though? Thought they lived only 400 years

[@DCdabest]

@URKCEHinoSuu Well for starters; Magic And you can always say it has been on the Astral Sea or something trying to learn more about plane shifting and dimension jumping techniques.

[@InflamedCorgi]

​​@@Atokukau Rule Zero it, if you want them to be immortal, just say they're immortal

[@drewforchic9083]

Fun Fact: Among her many different magical experiments, the ancient blue dragon Iymrith has developed a unique 9th level spell called "Force Burn", designed to kill Phaerimm (though it's also pretty deadly to all spell casters), allowing her to establish her lair in the Anauroch Desert without being overrun by them.

[@KeitieKalopsia]

That’s cool

[@DanielMWJ]

13:20 The idea that the imprisoned Phaerimm have become a race of enlightened philosophers that despise their "feral" brethren is hilarious.

[@TaCo0oCaT]

@@DanielMWJ that would be an interesting twist if the only way to actually escape the prison is to truly change their ways. Would justify having “good” Phaerimm in the outside world

[@jacobfreeman5444]

I think the idea is that Phaerimm have no reason to change so the prison would hold them indefinitely. Everything about them means they would not doubt themselves enough to change their ways. They are a predatory and parasitic race that no only views themselves as superior to all other races but only has a use for those other races when they want to reproduce. And not as pleasure toys.

@@TaCo0oCaT Or, you could have the Phaerim inside become "Feral" and forget their old ways, abandoning magic, and becoming mindless monsters, because of a thousand years of infighting, starvation and inbreeding. And the Phaerim from outside not realizing it, because the messages only go one way.

[@tooslow4065]

the ones inside the prison are the ones that lived there BEFORE there was a prison. and they were fine until they had their magic taken. now the netherese are gone (except for shade's return) and the magic they used that took from the phaerimm is gone. so they have no reason to change their culture or to leave. so why would one group become more or less evolved than the other?

[@DanielMWJ]

@@tooslow4065 Because cultures change over time? Never mind the knowledge that the cage is there. And all the other myriad things that can change.

[@creditsunknown7974]

A few extra bit of lore I barely remember: The Netherese empire created creatures called "Tomb tappers" which are magic searching constructs that are faceless and have a enormous maw on their stomach which is always very cool, they were specifically created (or atleast modified) to try and defend against the Phaerimm threat, with em being one of the few creatures able to resist the Phaerimm mind control. Phaerimm also do not requiere ANY component to cast a spell, mainly done "through will alone", which is most likely why charisma is their main spell stat as a way to "measure" that will in a way. And they normally try to study and find ways to make other spells work that way for themselves.

[@ferrisffalcis]

wait isnt will determined by wisdom

[@MRDLT00]

15:20 I feel like the Phaerimm would fit right at home in the Black Sun setting with how their magic actively destroys the environment around them.

[@Lazysupermutant]

Funny you mention that, there is an extraplaner, highly magic, lamprey like humanoids called Sligs. I can't remember if they're stuck on Athas, or if they're trying to take over Athas. Makes a fella wonder.

[@karlsweeney2328]

Cool idea

[@gapeape3895]

@@MRDLT00 its not exactlly their magic, it was that specific spell. realistically, any powerful enough wizard could learn and cast that spell

[@docbaker3333]

I Can see that the Phaerimm here would be very different Maybe a Lawful Good race of Druid Psions like the Pyreen but they where made to essentially return magic to the world I can also imagine them being really ruthless to Defiliers

[@grzegorzwardzinski3850]

Dark* Sun, but yeah. Agree.

[@bluesteve124]

I have a home brew world that I am rebooting where civilization clings desperately to the peaks of very high mountains over a sea of clouds full of unspeakable extra planar eldritch horrors. You've just given me the ruling race for what lies beneath the clouds! Thank you! 😈

[@Drekromancer]

That setting sounds raw as fuck. I'm into it!

[@jelly434]

Hell yeah I want to hear more about this :D

[@zacharyweaver276]

15:22 iirc their magic specifically gets rid of moisture causing deserts to form rather than being fully antithetical to life like necromancy or something. They did cause big problems for the super magic country of netheril by eating their magic though

[@johnathanmonsen6567]

Well, Horrid Wilting is a necromancy spell anyway, and sapping away all moisture is still pretty antithetical to 99% of all life, so it's not too far off.

[@williamaldred335]

They are also the catalyst behind the Fall of the age of arcanum. As the Phaerimm lead to the events leading to Karsus casting the only known 12th level spell in which he stole the power of the Goddess of Magic and snapped the Weave.

[@Lazysupermutant]

I am so tired right now I thought you typed out "and snatched her Weave." Which, I guess, is sort of accurate.

[@Hurricayne92]

I thought it was the only 13th level spell, but i could be wrong. edit: Yep seems i was wrong, no idea why I thought it was 13th level.

[@williamaldred335]

@@Hurricayne92 If it makes you feel better, the second I read your comment the first time, I thought you had it right. But yeah Karsus' Avatar was a year long spell (requiring tarrasque blood as a key component of it) that would would allow you for one minute to become a god. Karsus used it to become Mystrl (Mystra's former incarnation). But obvious, removing the god of magic even for a second to become one, does some funky shit and turns out the weave doesn't like funky shit and it quite literally snapped. Magic was rendered null until Mystra reformed it and instituted the rule that mortals will only ever be able to cast spells of the 9th level at the highest (mechanically it meant you could still have higher spell slots just no more spells unlocked that corresponded, with 10th and higher spell slots acting as a spells that where casted using Quickened Spell from Sorcerer)

[@VictorSevenTV]

Yes, that was the fall of the Netherese Empire, which he mentioned.

[@williamaldred335]

@VictorSevenTV I am aware, I am merely expanding on lore he has mentioned

[@themaplesamurai]

As a huge Eberron fan, I always think about how the monsters brought back for this channel might fit into Eberron, but aberrations like phaerimm are almost always an easy fit because I can just go, "okay, that's daelkyr shit right there."

[@hyrumhanson3390]

Or a aberration fron the grey mist.

[@fabrizioart1928]

Now WHICH daelkyr do they fit with the most tho

[@gapeape3895]

as a 2E player, these things are literally my biggest nightmare, love that you made a video on em, but why did you leave out their magic absorption and reflect ability?

[@mrmuchachoesq]

2e for the win. Greatest version ever written. Loose, clunky and easily home re-brew. Leaned more towards players interacting, not much min-max back in those days, at least, in my experience.

[@Martdogg3000]

14:03 "You just know something that looks like this isn't gonna be normal about it." I love that.

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

I feel like the reason these guys use charisma to cast their spells is because they understand them on such a fundamental level that they only need to speak the spell to cast it kinda like words of power. The only thing that impacts the spells outcome (their roll) is how well the pronounce the words of the spell.

[@gmanbo]

It feels much more like they have soucerer type of magic. More of a lineage......

[@jacobfreeman5444]

What was left out of the video is that Phaerimm eat magic. This is why they manipulate it so well. They have to or they will die. Magic is both the air they breathe and the food they eat. So to them harnessing it is really just an act of will. Fun fact: they talk by manipulating magic to force air currents to move in a way that creates the sounds they wish. As a bonus it is super creepy sounding so of course they are fine with talking to their lessers. As causing fear and subservience in such pathetic creatures is just the Phaerimm way.

[@lordk.gaimiz6881]

They did already come to 5e in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, but your version is better in many ways. Plus it's always nice to see more nerdery ^^

[@Dragowolf_Rising]

He didn't say the name out loud, but at 1:13 he pictures said Journal!

[@donavandunn9824]

Oh god, I've heard of these guys for so long, But I never knew how to run them Now to bring the Wizard's boogyman to my games

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

I would think their boogyman would be a mage ripper or a mage hunter. Like it's even in their names lol

[@arthurdramaline3092]

Dungeon Dad! Do an episode on the Sharn and my life is yours!

[@monkeibusiness]

Made a whole homebrew world / continent where one of the inciting incidents or signs that something was very, very wrong was Phaerimm waking up. In this twist, the only way to destroy them also ruined the continent: Everything was dead. No water, no plants, no life. Just dead wasteland. At least that is what the people believe. The party encountered the last one, 25 years after the war has ended. It took over a whole village, the villagers worshipped it in a twisted way and it was the only peaceful and green oasis on the whole continent. Of course, once the party discovered the Phaerimm, all hell broke loose. Life got turned into twisted plant-versions of themselves, the forest turned against the adventurers, creatures of myth and legend like the Barometz appeared, and so on. The more dangerous it got, the higher the rewards were. But at the end... there was only the Phaerimm in its underground lair under a tree, in a pool of water feeding its strange magics. It was tense. They barely made it, despite being really high level at the time. And having the help of a Tomb Tapper at the very end. Anyways, Phaerimm can and should be incredibly unnerving and dangerous. There is no way these plants should be that great at magic.

[@TheWoocash052]

Great, I love phaerimms! Now we need Sharns for the balance 🙂

[@shishoka]

Although pissed the trapped Phaerim are probably fine. There situation is probably closest to being put under house arrest on your fully self-sufficient farm.

[@themonolougist]

The phaerimm were printed in Mincs and Boo's Journal of Villainy which is although not official content, it is published by WotC. It is a great beastiary for anyone interested, it has some great high level antagonist npc statblocks and some delicious monsters in it like the phaerimm.

[@pzalterias5154]

In the WotC published version, I like they have double concentration though. It's pretty fitting.

[@Dragowolf_Rising]

While he didn't say the name, at 1:13 he pictures said Journal!

[@Valdor_Chess]

Forgotten Realms canon actually had the Sharn Wall breached, the old Netherese return (with Shar's shadow-weave), and most of the Phaerimm where hunted to near extinction. There was actually a trilogy of Forgotten Realms books that focused on some of this plot line.

[@Mike_W78]

used to have the Anauroch book and loved it. My mom thought it was the devil and burned it. Was the only DnD book she ever burned as I pitch a huge fit as I had saved up and spent my own money on it. Also there is a book that has the Phaerimm prison is broken open and they escaped. it was one of the books with the shadow nethril city that comes back.

[@ltcinsane]

From what i remember from a trilogy of novels that were kind of set in the time of Nethril is the Phaerimm actually tried talk to the Netherese .. but because the surface empire of Netheril was so enfused with magical energy every time they tried to reach the surface to try & communicate they would apparently just explode. The Netheril Trilogy: Sword Play, Dangerous Games, Mortal Consequences are the 3 novels from the late 90's that cover it.

[@victorvictor_dead_kro_nov_jail]

I can not thank you enough, I have started a few month ago an anauroch campaign with a big hidden plot by the cult of tiamat and this will be the cherry on top

[@DerekCFPegritz]

They always remind me of a combination of the gugs from H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and the Cthonians from Brian Lumley's The Burrowers Beneath.

[@remiwelch6234]

Netheril, and anything to do with it, is my favourite general Lore in the franchise.

[@soultron4238]

I can’t believe you haven’t covered the Phaerimm yet!! This will be awesome!!

[@kquixotic]

Yet another Dungeon Dad monster I feel compelled to use. My players will curse this video for inspiring the horror wrought on them, but w/e.

[@Warforged644]

Ad + Review = more reliable depiction of a product. Definitely considering ordering these for the holidays!

[@derekstein6193]

1:13 When I bought that book, I was not expecting the phaerimm to be in it. The artwork for them in that book is SICK! It truly presents them as the monsters they are; not as weird, living windsocks.

[@frankly_earnest]

I really don't want to know what Phaerimming entails (or do I?) 😆 I'm interested in the Warlock-ish angle to these weirdos. I have this plot hook idea about a party member whose patron is an ancient/powerful Phaerimm that's effectively dominated them. Perhaps they're still trapped in the prison, or are using the party member to escape somehow...but I think it could be an interesting plot twist to DM. Also, it feels like Dune was another strong inspiration here, not just Alien...they change the ecosystem to deserts, big pointy teeth, they're shaped like fleshli- I mean sock tubes...all that's missing is some spice and some explosive aversion to water 😁 Thanks as always, Josiah! See you next week, hopefully! 🤞🏼

[@kjj26k]

Well, they do have that explosive relation to magic...

[@frankly_earnest]

@kjj26k Very true! I was thinking about concrete stuff, but the magic reaction counts.

[@mke3053]

I love the Phaerimm... used them years ago as the main vilains of a long campaign that went Epic.

[@justinwalters4957]

Great to see this one make it on the channel! This is one of my all time favorite monsters and I was really disappointed it hasn't shown up in official 5e D&D.

[@Sweetsweep29]

It has, it's in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy. It's only on DM's guild, but it's an official WotC 5e book

[@duanebradway1627]

Fantastic video. It would be cool if you could do a video on the Simurgh from 2e. Thanks for the awesome work you do.

[@Bofrab]

I’m so happy you adapted this monster for 5e. I’ve been yearning to use them in a campaign, I also just love this era of dnd lore.

[@thereserm4378]

We may be too late in the season for these to be produced, but it would be fun to see a wintery or light-celebration themed series. Akin to the Halloween series. Perhaps the monsters are drawn from folklore, such as Krampus, Yule Cat, Gryla and the Yule Lads, Frau Perchta, etc. (And naturally, pulling from sources where it's appropriate, i.e., not doing the wendingo without involvement of someone within the Algonquian-speaking community.)

[@DabbleDo]

I’m loving the idea of a party killing an Elder Brain, and realizing there’s an even bigger fish out there controlling the mind flayers…

[@lexibyday9504]

Ok imagine this campaign: Post apocaliptic desert world with nothing but sand, stone, and monsters. Oh and a walking city that takes the party across the massive distances to quest locations. Eventually, the party learns that something underground caused this end of the world situation. Originally I ran it as a tarasque so the party could have a big kaiju vs mecha battle but I think the Phaerimm are a better fit for having caused this.

[@lunardarkangel5237]

Doesn't mean there can't also be a tarasque there

[@lexibyday9504]

@@lunardarkangel5237 yeah I was thinking that too I just don't know how to tie the Phaerimm killing the world to godzilla's little brother is also there for some reason and now you have to fight him.

[@Wraithspartan]

​@@lexibyday9504mind controlled lackey?

[@EldenJohn75]

Praise be a new MOTW! Thank you dungeon dad

[@fallwoodcentral7991]

I’m just imagining a wise old wizard fighting a Phaerimm, getting egged by the tail before dying by the wizard’s magic. The wizard then figures out it’s a parasitic egg, removes it, but places it in a warm cow for it to feast upon birth for study. The wizard will then continue to study it in a cage until he realizes that it’s a sentient creature, and proceeds to adopt it like it’s his son/daughter. As an NPC, this wizard could be sought after by the party due to knowing so much and possibly knowing the weakness of a monster they need to slay. In the middle of the party’s conversation, the adopted Phaerimm child barges to ask a question. The party sees a horrifying leech-like creature enter the room with a bottomless mouth and various claw-like hands. “Hey dad, how do I cast Fireball? I’ve been trying to work out the mana overflow with the delayed timing, but I can’t quite get it down. It keeps turning into Firebolt instead.” The wizard is not phased, “Did you carry the remainder for the mana produced by the semantics?” “…Oh, I did not. Thanks dad!” The party just stares on in awe. “Oh yeah, adventurers, this my son. He’s a gifted magic caster.” “Hi! My name is Ben.” As a player, the wizard could bring his Phaerimm son to an adventurer’s guildhall. “Okay, so you are Charkle the wise wizard? I look forward to-HOLY FRICK, WHAT IS THAT?!” the guild receptionist stares at the killer tube sock riding the wizard’s shoulder. The wizard is unphased, “oh, that’s my son.” “Hi! My name is Ben! Can I also register to be an adventurer?” I find it funnier that a horrific creature like this is just raised to be a normal child before learning about their species’ horrific lineage and history.

[@elijahhurd5642]

You sir, are a genius. I am DEFINITELY NOT going to steal this one.

[@17thsophistcate]

Yup, totally not using this idea :p. For real tho, I got just the kind of players that would love this.

[@Hemperorjoans]

Ah these guys lol I have read up on them when I grabbed the Anauroch book to do some research for a Bedine ranger I made for an old campaign, I did not include them as part of the backstory but they where certainly an interesting creature.

[@adenedhel3855]

wonderful video

[@Grinnar]

Oh dang. I haven't been this early to one of your videos before. I am eager to learn about this. Though I might already have read about it prior. I wanna refresh and expand!

[@joshuazane3210]

Class is in session. We are so f*cking back. Let's go! ✊

[@MagesINC]

I can’t believe you aren’t more popular man

[@madisonmcclure8243]

Glad to have you back! Hope life has leveled out. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@Phantasm01]

Weekly dose of eldritch monstrosities that haunt the mind to the extent of shattering their anchors to reality! Time to grab the popcorn.

[@grummdoesstuff2983]

As someone who’s favorite creature class is Aberration, I’m very happy to see these guys getting attention.

[@NixityNullt]

So it's the worms from dune, the xenomorphs from alien, AND the martians from war of the worlds at the SAME TIME? NO THANK YOU.

[@shishoka]

More like the Martians from Mars Attacks.

[@theownerofsexreal9559]

YES PLEASE.

[@pelijer]

If any of those examples consider 6th level spells as must-know material, yes

[@thedeanbean2145]

don’t think it gets mentioned enough but the weirdcore digital aesthetic of your videos goes so hard

[@davidmcguire8041]

Really love your stuff and probably getting a hardcover of the monster book, sounds really fun

[@allaboutyou3745]

I’ve been missing a crucial part of my story line this monster fills it perfectly!

[@lorekeeper685]

In 2e there was some pharim spells printed that you could use if your dm was insane or something

[@adelahogarth2761]

DM: "Mostly lighthearted romp... still adjusted to this new 3rd ed stuff." Me: *Nods* "Yeah, I've GMed heaps of 3, you'll do fine. Don't worry about pulling your punches so much as encounter wise it's a little less deadly than second." DM: "Well, I was thinking Toril." Me: "Awesome beginner setting stuff, loving it." DM: "In the Anauroch and Stonelands..." Me: "Are we doing that adventure arc where we can claim that barony north of Cormyr!?" DM: "Yep, but I thought I'd tie the concept to taming both the Stonelands and the southern stretches of the Anauroch and uncovering a foul Netherese ancient secret and the hideous denizens below..." Me: "Ahhhh .... crap...." *Mentally puts away their lighthearted bard/virtuoso build, decides to go bard/swiftblade/sublime chord/paladin of freedom build* -------------- In all seriousness, I like the Phaerimm lorewise but ... nasty critters.

[@chompydood]

LETS GOOOO!! ANOTHER MONSTER OF THE WEEK!!! WHOOO!!

[@justinbell7309]

I ran a Phaerimm in my post campaign for Frostmaiden (they touched the obelisk). The official one's double concentration meant I had it attack with ranged spells while invisible. The panic fireballs were hilarious, and, needless to say, there's a lot less wood in Neverwinter Woods in the future.

[@VengefulJarl]

The original creators of the baldurs gates games also came up with a stat block in inthinknits called minsc and bops journal on villainy or something like that.

[@Milotaur]

Dungeon Dad dishing out yet another perfect npc for my campaign, i thank you kindly

[@Texanrascal]

I remember having to deal with these monster in a 3.5e campaign. You did a great job boss.

[@tgb_exe]

I love these little worm monsters. Have you ever thought about making a video about The Abeil? Hugely underrated monster species i would love to see in a 5e format.

[@mementomori771]

Super early, so I'm asking for Vampire Muse again because she's wifey. I can't wait to use Phaerimm in my time traveling adventure I have planned

[@ichigokurosaki4976]

What is that? Waifu material AND dangerous? I want It.

[@moonlightdawn7249]

Waifu. Just thought I'd let you know.

[@17thsophistcate]

I can't be the only one who read "Phaerimm in my time traveling adventure" and pictured that Time Cop mf from Rick and Morty.

[@devourlordasmodeus]

Yo! I have requested this on the discord so I 100% back you my man, Vampire Muse seems really awesome to bring into 5E for the stories you could tell with it, especially if one targets your party's bard

[@senrith_]

Great video and perfect timing, as my players enter a certain location in my Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign...

[@aaroncoffman7267]

Nice! There’s a location in Rime of the Frostmaiden that I had a Phaerimm encounter a while back. Was really memorable

[@makbeth4245]

Completely unrelated to genocide-enjoying weird magical worms of old times (or is it?), but i've stumbled upon an old video of yours about Dancer of Boreal valley and there was a promise of more monsters from Souls games, which as far as i'm aware haven't happened. But maybe - just maybe - Dad is going to come home with milk and some souls entities after all these years?

[@GrimGoblinLives]

I missed yout videos, I greatly sppreciate work you do, thsnk you for being a source on inspiration.

[@popularopinion1]

This is great, and im so glad you included the tail stinger egg

[@AlmightyDoubleHelix]

It'd be interesting to see them interact with Illithid. The mind flayers would probably want to figure out their mind control ability or ceremorphise them, and the Phaerimm may try to take control of an elder brain to use the Illithid colony's collective brain power to try to find a way to open the imprisonment

[@isaiahfennell3901]

I've long wondered who'd get to bringing this into 5e first, Wizards or Dad. Unsurprised that, yet again, Dad reigns supreme.

[@DSchultz95]

Well, actually they appeared in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy.

[@danielkraybill3356]

They’re also in a trilogy called return of the archwizards, where an accidental breach in the barrier that the sharn made releases the phaerimm. Not long after, the last remaining flying city from the netheril empire makes its return from a similar imprisonment in the plane of shadow.

[@joedominguez8064]

I friggin love these guys and having you cover them is great 😊 you da man

[@3of6mylove]

These are one of my favorites. One of the few things even mind flayers are terrified of.

[@lordyathnon]

You said that none of the originals are likely "alive", but with their arcane knowledge a lich or two wouldn't be surprising. I could see a thosands of years old lich leading their society

[@theflyingpen]

I wish you included mention of Karusus' Folly when covering the literal fall of the Netherese cities. He created a 14th level spell involving Gold Dragon eggs and tarasque bile as components in a spell that took nine months to cast where he literally stole divinity from the Goddess of magic causing magic to fluctuate and destroy almost every floating city. It was the event that caused the Gods of the Forgotten Realms to restrict magic.

[@ferrisffalcis]

this episode is hella special so have a comment to boost the algorithm

[@kevinedwards5390]

Please do the LeShey. The pruto Fey of older DND myth

[@MechbossBoogie]

It's always funny to me how few people know of the existence of these creatures and how much scarier they are than the illithid. I used one as the BBEG in a campaign. It was nasty. Party started off opening a portal to a dungeon and this thing just casually floats out past them like it was waiting. Protection spells go up, party tries to do something, it just laughs and keeps going. It treated them like they were nothing to it.

[@AbyssallAberrant]

MONSTER IDEA: Virage from The Legend of the Dragoon.

[@peepopopo7140]

I remember you mentioning that Pale Night was able to teleport out of a demon meeting in spite of teleportation wards being placed on the area. Maybe Pale Night is the only one who can bypass the Phaerrim's prison. Who knows if these proud worms would be cool with serving a demon in exchange for escape, but they're getting desperate...

[@eliotoole4534]

15:26 perhaps they are responsible for the plight of Athos

[@DimensionalWanderer1]

The sucking all magical energy out of the environment until everything around them becomes a lifeless desert heavily reminds me of Dark Sun and the Defiler Wizards on Athas. I feel like I could do something with that....

[@raistlin3462]

Is it confirmed magic being necessary to sustain life in Toril?

[@Wintermute909]

There was a pretty cool seies of novels by Troy Denning (iirc) about a massive war when the sharn wall broke and the Phaerimm swarmed out. Elminster, the Choosen, the elves of Evereska plus more all got smashed pretty hard.

[@johnathanmonsen6567]

Having their venom randomly cause the paralyzed victims to float is a fantastic detail, actually; it's inexplicable, but sells the arcane nature of the creatures and sounds SUPER creepy to boot.

[@venkelos6996]

This reminds that even if 5e "watered down" some monsters; their abilities, spellcasting, spell resistance (sorry; its an opinion), I really wish they had tackled Shades. I'm not even sure what they would qualify as, since there aren't "neutral Outsiders", and they are neither Fiends, nor Celestials, and I don't think player-favoring 5e would let them keep shadow stepping, stealth, that level of casting, and more all in one monster entry, but I just want to know what happened to the rest of them, after Thulanthar fell? Did they all die? Did they flee to Shadowfell? Dip into the Underdark? Were there kingdom-sponsored pogroms to hunt them down, since they were all evil, in ways similar to a kind King Elessar still having Orcs basically hunted to extinction? Despite some mechanical complaints, I typically really like 5e, but one gripe I frequently have is that it's Forgotten Realms; the "all filled in" setting, but after 4e had to mostly getv et-conned out, and WotC kindly stopped burying us in questionable-quality splatbooks, it feels tattered? Some is, I'm sure, to leave room for DMs to insert their own content, or to leave room for Wizards' next "region spotlight" campaign, but I just wish more stuff had stayed filled in, over the 110 years since 3rd. I remember having to hunt for simply who is the current ruler of Cormyr? It's not on the Sword Coast, so it hasn't been spotlighted, yet, and novels in FRCS are much rarer, now, with FR being "central D&D", so it's spotty. I wish I knew what happened to the Shades, and how many survived the loss of their flying city?

[@foisopracurtir6389]

Heck, what happened to their army? They dragged a bunch of disparated isolationist magic-fearing desert people to war in a temperate forest and caused the rest back home to unionize.

[@matiasmenzies]

Got giddy like a school girl seeing this in my feed, I was feining. Keep posting love your content!

[@DanielHodgeVoice]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

[@Liam_theX]

Yay, new vid 🎉

[@PenniDeadful]

Finally! I was waiting for this!

[@Magic__7]

Much enjoyed very cool monster

[@matthewdaley4403]

Been fond of these ever since I adapted them for the Spheres Cataclysm Handbook.

[@greatazuredragon]

Nice episode, thanks for the update.

[@davidjohnson5557]

So good! This is a must watch!!!

[@drewforchic9083]

Speaking of Sharn, they'd be a great creature to feature on this show.

[@DESTROYER-xm1vt]

Long time no see dungeon dad! im still hoping you could cover the destrachen at some point

[@keithcanter3947]

I would love to see you do a video on the Lillend!

[@moralessanchezoscarelias6412]

You are looking good today, dungeon dad. Good vibes.

[@syrupchugger421]

Really cool creature. Thank you for this video

[@ismount]

I wish the D&D lore was more fleshed out. I am always left wanting more after perusing the wiki.

[@cameronpearce5943]

For an Elder Phaerimm the CR 15 statblock from Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy works nicely, while for a Juvenile Phaerimm there is the statblock in Ezmeralda's Encyclopedia of Evil works well for their young. I hope we get an official statblock for them in the upcoming Forgotten Realm's sourcebooks so we can use them in Adventure's League, I've been primed for them ever since the cameo in the museum in Rime of the Frostmaiden, which also included the 5e update for the Tomb Tappers introduced alongside them

[@metrux321]

Oh dang, this just appeared for me today... But thanks for the vid ^^

[@Deathven1482]

Ooooo. I should mention that WoTC did phaerrim recently with Minsc and Boo’s Journal of Villany! Edit: Derp. He mentions it in the video. Oh well, at least I typed it out

[@changeling6450]

I didnt know this guys, but theyre lore sounds pretty interesting and the fact that this dudes can make a scary fight for mages and melees alike, i can see a plot hook being persons and monsters missing, a desert being bigger and bigger, people think is a God curse or maybe other type of monster, the party go and find one of this sending charmed persons and monsters to the other side, or even this dude being a "good guy" that this contracts to send people to the other side and the party mission is discover the lies, or even the party searching a hydra, awakening it and maybe finally making a contact attemp of the locked and released ones